They Started A War Over A Pastry Bill
A French baker's complaint about his ransacked shop helped spark a 1838 blockade and the ridiculously named Pastry War-proper daft, but true.Read More 
You Might Have A Spare Nipple, Innit
A few percent of us quietly carry an extra nipple along the embryonic 'milk line' and most never notice until it decides to be dramatic.Read More 
The Lord Who Walked A Zebra
An English lord kept a pet zebra, dyed pigeons like party confetti and treated modern life like a badly organised revue.Read More 
Bennington Triangle: The Girl Who Walked Off
An 18-year-old went for a walk on a mountain trail in 1946 and the countryside decided to be mysterious about it.Read More 
They Freeze Corpses And Call It Gardening
A Swedish idea freezes your loved one, rattles them to powder and bills it as eco-friendly compost - proper daft, but real.Read More 
Nauru Has No Capital, Mate
A tiny Pacific republic that never bothered to give its government a proper capital; they just use Yaren and call it a day.Read More 
Born Without Pain - Not That Lucky, Mate
Some folks can't feel pain or sweat; sounds class until their kids chew off their tongues and the heating bill kills 'em.Read More 
Don't Move The Screaming Skull, Mate
Some houses in Britain literally keep a skull in a room because, allegedly, it will start screaming and wreck your house if you nick it - proper awkward inheritance planning.Read More 
Them Blue Folk From Troublesome Creek
A whole family went properly blue for generations thanks to a daft recessive gene and life being stuck in a valley - and no, it wasn't smurfing about.Read More 
They Eat Fish Sperm And Call It Shirako
They serve fish milt in Japan - shirako - creamy, custardy, sometimes from cod or fugu, and people queue for it like it's haute cuisine.Read More
